In the design community there often seems to be this need, or this want to immediately critique a design. Critique might be too kind of a word, it’s more of a hate on a design. To immediately call something out as terrible, wrong, ridiculous, stupid or just plain dumb. In offices I’ve worked in I often hear people immediately yell out that something is “clowntown” or laugh about how terrible a design is or how horrendous a drop shadow might be.
Another thoughtful post from Matt Brown about design critiquing. I don’t really see bloggers changing their ways though. Strong voiced, controversial posts get traffic because people feel a need to comment on them.